Pete et al...if you search the 3830 Soapbox archives for _K3_, _K3s_ or _K3's_, I believe you'll find some answers. The most interesting thing to me is how slowly or quickly some big gun stations are
Interesting discussion but one rule change could obviate most if not all Skimmer/Packet/Internet problems. Institute a QSY rule as in the Sprint. No more frequency wars, no more packet pileups, no mo
That may be because LY8A is in the SCP database and LY8O is not. :-) Regarding non-standard phonetics, I generally agree but I sometimes do use different phonetics when someone is having problems (e.
While salt water is definitely good for verticals, but it doesn't help horizontally polarized antennas like Yagis. For the low bands (160/80) where construction of large Yagis is a mechanical challen
EZNEC shows minor improvement for horizontal polarization over salt water but it's at high angles...not low angles as is the case for vertical polarization. At 14 degrees TOA, there's a 0.51 dB adva
K1TN: inlet. Can I run a ground wire there to get the salt water effect, or do I need to go another three miles. I know you're being facetious but I've actually studied this. Based on ancedotal evide
The "Team Vertical" prime movers, K2KW and N6BT, have answered this question. A good rule of thumb is the antennas should be no more than a quarter wavelength from the salt water. More information is
Congratulations to the Russians for setting a new standard for WRTC implementation! They did everything imaginable to level the playing field, including completely moving one station at the very last
WRTC 2002 in Finland and 9th with W7WA in WRTC 2000 in Slovenia. More likely it was the locations in those particular WRTCs...thanks to Harry and the Russians for changing that in WRTC 2010. 73, Bil
biggest, uh, opinions on this Reflector are rarely found in any of my contest logs? You're not alone...it's the same predictable guys, over and over. 73, Bill W4ZV ___________________________________
every 1-3 minutes (sometimes more!) getting extremely frustrating? An unscrupulous person (not me!) might discourage this by intentionally spotting non-IDer's calls incorrectly by a dit or two. Such
VE3DZ: public on the following: Looking at the callsigns carefully, it appears that Team RB4W was mis-spotting all potential competitors to create QRM and wasted time. What unbelievable efforts these
bands there is absolutely no reason it cannot be done on 80 and 20 from down here. ...or 10...and my setup is minor compared to the top 3 MMs (XX, LPL and LR). http://users.vnet.net/btippett/new_page
respect ops who win this way. Just an observation regarding SO2R and WRTC. IMHO SO2R skills have nothing to do with WRTC skills where each operator uses 1 radio on 1 band at a time. Yet most qualific
on the great advantage he has in WPX (as we know, NQ4I is a frequent winner in WPX). That advantage is simple...no competition. KC1XX, K3LR and W3LPL generally don't compete in WPX. When both KC1XX a
would be between two east coast stations. Not quite. In January 2011 I predicted: "The USA winner will be either: 1. On salt water (K3ZM) 2. From Maine (K8PO) 3. Or both (K1DG)" http://lists.contesti
I've been doing this with my 10m 3-stack since installing it in 1999. When the band is open to EU (local mornings), my bottom 2 are usually on EU and the top is SE for Caribbean, SA and long path Far
there, how close can someone get on CW and not really bother your run? For me its 350hz. Inside that and it causes problems. If I hear 2 guys 700 - 900hz apart, I am slipping in between. You're makin
N4ZR: higher than the highest SO unassisted score in ARRL CW? Has this ever happened before? Perhaps not legally...but I'd bet with 99% certainty it's not the first time. I'm up early to look for vis
N5ZC: compared to the ability to make quick band changes using a solid state amp? I agree with the comments you've already gotten but here's another point to consider. Maintaining a run frequency mea